The discovery in April, 2002 of car #1087,
manufactured in January, 1978 by Replicars gives evidence
of "out of sequence" VIN numbers.

When
Glassic went bankrupt in 1975 they did not leave their
records behind. When Replicars began production, the
owner, Joel, selected an arbritrary starting number for
the Replicars serial numbers. During an interview over 20
years later, he did not recall the starting number, but
thought that it might have been 1001, since the first car
had been number 101. At the time of the interview, Joel
had not known of any duplicate serial numbers being in
existence.

When car 1087 was reported as a 1977 it did not match
with cars from 1974 bearing higher numbers -- so it
appears that there may be TWO cars with numbers 1001
through at least 1211 which is the highest numbered
Glassic from 1974 that has been located so far.

Glassic records were lost after the bankruptsy, and
Replicars production records were ruined in an office
flood years ago.